The Iceberg ecosystem today (w/ Anders Swanson)

Tristan sits down with Anders Swanson, a developer experience advocate at dbt Labs, to talk about the state of the Apache Iceberg ecosystem. They unpack the "open standards" shift, define the core building blocks (query engines, object stores, catalogs), and dig into why external catalogs have become a fourth namespace tier across platforms. Anders outlines a pragmatic, phased adoption model for Iceberg integrations, explains why metadata performance and resiliency are hard requirements, and clarifies why vended credentials exist and what they solve. For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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The Iceberg ecosystem today (w/ Anders Swanson) is an episode from The Analytics Engineering Podcast by dbt Labs, Inc..

This episode is 54:51 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2026.

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